Blairstown man and another named as having defamed company on Internet

One of the anonymous writers, according to court papers, is Paul
Jetter, a Blairstown resident, who used the pseudonym "Implementor
Extraordinaire" and ha d been referred to as John Doe No. 1. Jetter
did not return a telephone call for comment. Jetter was one of four
anonymous writers sued by township-based Dendrite International
Inc. last year for defaming the company and breaching an employee
contract.

Jetter was a former Dendrite employee and had worked in its
sales department. According to court papers, he ended his
employment with the company

last June. In one posting, Jetter said that he was "not bitter
and left (Dendrite) on his own terms."

The other writer named in the amended complaint is Timothy
Rogers, 23, who went

by the name "Ajcazz" and was referred to as John Doe No. 2.
Rogers was a junior web designer at Dendrite and left the company
last May.

Rogers could not be reached for comment.

Software Supplier

Dendrite International Inc., which is located on Route 202, is
an international

supplier of software and sales services for the pharmaceutical
industry. The Dendrite suit has become a high profile case
involving questions of Internet privacy and the limits of free
speech over the Internet.

The amended complaint alleged that both Jetter and Rogers
breached an employee contract. Rogers signed a contract in July
1998 and Jetter signed one in November 1998.

According to the contract, employees or former employees are
prohibited from disclosing confidential information about the
company or trying to convince current employees to leave the
company. The complaint alleged that the two men also made false
statements about Dendrite's policies.

Jetter's attorney, Bob Leonard of Morristown, has argued that
his client should

be protected under the right to free speech guaranteed by the
First Amendment.

Michael Vogel, a Princeton attorney representing Dendrite,
disagreed.

"This is about a breach of contract. I don't agree that it is
about the First Amendment," he said in an interview on Monday. "My
client has been damaged by

the defendant's conduct."

Jetter posted more than 40 messages on a Yahoo financial
bulletin board about Dendrite between March 20 and June 23,
2000.

'Lot To Gain'

As early as March 28, 2000, said the court papers, Jetter tried
to induce several employees to leave the company, bragging that he
stood to "gain a lot in referral fees" and that the "cash from
referring Dendrite refugees will pay for a rather nice
vacation."

Under the employee contract, a former employee is prohibited for
two years from

trying to get other employees to leave Dendrite.

The complaint also alleged that Rogers made false statements
about Dendrite claiming that Dendrite's management regularly
threatened to fire employees and that the company did not develop
its own products.

Jetter, alleged the complaint, received confidential information
from current Dendrite employees.

The complaint also said that Jetter and Rogers along with
another anonymous writer, John Doe No. 3, had written messages
saying that Dendrite did not pay company bonuses and was not honest
about its actual revenues.

"The statements are libelous on the face and have a tendency to
injure Dendrite's business reputation," said the court
papers.

Last November, Superior Court Judge Kenneth C. MacKenzie ruled
that Dendrite could not reveal the identity of two of the message
writers, John Doe No. 3 and John Doe No. 4, because Dendrite had
not shown sufficient evidence of defamation. Vogel said on Monday
that he would be filing a brief in the coming weeks app ealing the
judge's decision on John Doe No. 3. In his November ruling,
MacKenzie said "Implementor Extrordinaire" (Jetter ) and "Ajcazz"
(Rogers) could be identified by the firm because enough evidenc e
had been shown that the two had allegedly defamed Dendrite. Neither
of the two defendants had responded through their attorneys to the
lawsuit. In January, Dendrite served subpoenas on AT&T WorldNet
Services and IBM Glob al Services seeking information on
"Implementor Extrordinaire's" (Jetter's) id entity.

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